Dementia Care Navigation Roundtable
To encourage and implement more coordinated care models across the country for people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementia, the Alzheimer’s Association formed the Dementia Care Navigation Roundtable.
The Roundtable consists of health systems, payers and dementia experts who aim to establish consistent processes and protocols for dementia care navigation. This ensures that all persons with dementia and their caregivers have the opportunity to receive equitable, quality dementia care navigation services.
About the Dementia Care Navigation Roundtable
The Dementia Care Navigation Roundtable is made up of experts from across the healthcare industry, including systems, clinicians, payers, researchers and other stakeholders who are committed to advancing the delivery of high-quality, person-centered dementia care navigation.The Roundtable includes three workgroups:
- Dementia Care Navigation
- Training Standards, Credentialing and Fidelity for Dementia Care Navigation
- Business Case for Navigation
Convening experts to improve care
The Roundtable supports broad implementation of dementia care navigation by convening experts, sharing best practices and disseminating resources.To encourage and improve coordinated care, several dementia care navigation programs have been developed and assessed. Most programs have demonstrated important benefits for people living with dementia, including:
- Improved outcomes
- Reduced emergency room visits
- Lower hospital readmissions
- Shorter delays in long-term care placement
- Decreased illness, strain and behavioral symptoms, including for their caregivers (decreased depression, burden and unmet needs)
Guiding principles of dementia care navigation
A paper published in the Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions provides an important cornerstone for the Roundtable’s work. In the paper, dementia care experts, convened by the Alzheimer’s Association, put forth core guiding principles aimed at creating a national framework for dementia care navigation within or in collaboration with U.S. health systems.
Roundtable chairs and workgroups
Dementia Care Navigation Roundtable Chairs
David B. Reuben, M.D.Geriatrics Medicine
UCLA Health
David Bass, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Research & Education, Senior Research Scientist
Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging
Workgroups
Dementia Care Navigation
Workgroup leader:
Lucille Carriere, Ph.D.
Behavioral Health Director and Angie Ruvo Endowed Caregiving Chair
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
Using a health equity lens, members will determine what components of dementia care navigation must be included for quality dementia care navigation with a focus on non-traditional settings, diverse communities, and with consideration of the disease stage transitions of care from pre-diagnosis through end-of-life care.
Training Standards, Credentialing and Fidelity for Dementia Care Navigation
Workgroup leader:
Tatiana Sadak, Ph.D., PMHNP, FAAN
Deputy Dean, Professor
Yale School of Nursing
Using a health equity lens, members will develop core competencies of care navigation mapped using a tier-based approach. Members will identify or create measures that indicate high-quality dementia care navigation has been implemented, including domains, tools and tracking.
Business Case for Navigation
Workgroup co-leaders:
R. John Sawyer, Ph.D., ABPP
Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist and Co-Director, Center for Brain Health
Ochsner Neuroscience Institute
Gary Espstein-Lubow, M.D.
Distinguished Medical Scholar, Education Development Center,
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Members will develop a business case for dementia care navigation. Members will consider strategies for health systems and community-based organizations. Workgroup outcomes will aim to ensure all persons with dementia and their caregivers have the opportunity to receive equitable, quality dementia care navigation services.
For more information
If you are interested in joining the Dementia Care Navigation Roundtable, please complete this form. For questions or more information, please email dementiacarenavigation@alz.org.
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